On Friday March 10, 2022 I was instructed by my insurance company that there was an availability to drop off my vehicle for repair at Buckhead Collision. Since I'm a USAA customer, Buckhead Collision is one of their preferred body shops so I figured that everything would proceed without a hitch. I called the previous day (Thursday) to confirm that I would still be dropping off my vehicle and picking up my rental. The lady that normally answers the phone (who always has an attitude for whatever reason) would not provide me with her name, rudely stated "yes you are still scheduled to dropped of your vehicle". I walked through the door on Friday and spoke with the manager Scott, which is the person I dealt with for the estimate. Scott was speaking with a customer already, I was patience and could have waited, however he did acknowledge that I was there and politely placed the customer on hold, which was very much appreciated. Scott said hello sir how can I help you, I replied and stated that I am here to dropped off a vehicle. Scott then asked that you are here to dropped off a vehicle on a Friday? I said yes that is what I was instructed to do and I did call yesterday to confirm. Before Scott could say anything else, this same rude lady aforementioned, start screaming from the back saying "yes you called to confirm and you did speak with me but we are not ready to receive your vehicle". Understand, I cannot see her face yet because as I stated she started yelling from the back, but her voice becomes louder as she makes her way to the front and comes from behind the glass. I replied "so help me understand, I called to confirm which you are acknowledging but you still state that you are not ready to receive my vehicle, that does make any sense at all.? I am now face to face with her, and she has one of the angriest facial expressions that I have ever seen and tells me, "well you can take you vehicle somewhere else because we do not need YOUR KIND OF BUSINESS ANYWAY. I had to pause for a min and try to process what she had just uttered out of her mouth. I then asked, what do you mean "my kind of business", you mean because I am black? Of course, she is a white lady and I didn't know any other way to take what she said. She then rolled her eyes and went to the back. The entire time this is going on, the manager Scott is standing right there; so, I'm not sure if she is related to the owners or just the usually white privilege that made her so comfortable saying this to a customer. However, she was very comfortable doing so and seemed to not have a care in the world that anything would be done about her behavior. So I ask Scott the manager, " why would he allow one of his employees to talk to a customer in such a way; he replied well you were combative with her". I then stated now I have a problem with you Scott, (as white privilege would have it), he is taking up for her horrible and extremely unprofessional behavior. I asked him to please explain at what point was I combative, belligerent, or any other synonyms he would like to use to defend their horrible customer service to me. Was it at the point I asked a very valid questions as to why would you all have me driving across town to dropped off my vehicle and not being ready to receive it, because any customer with the least amount of common sense would pose that same question? He didn't have a response besides having a passive aggressive attitude. I then ask, not that its ok during any time to treat a customer this way but in the middle of a pandemic, can you all afford to just treat customer this way and turn away business. He just looked at me with an expression as if he could care less and was ready for me to leave. Needless to say, after waiting about a month for this body shop to get my vehicle in, I now have to wait for another body shop to take my vehicle. There is no way in hell I would give Buckhead Collision any of my business, this interaction was not acceptable. I would not recommend this body shop to anyone. I'm also reporting this to USAA since this is a preferred shop through them so they can submit feedback as well. read more